fcitx5 cannot type Chinese in alacritty/xterm. #254

jinmiaoluo · 2021-03-31T10:33:20Z

Describe the bug
After upgrade my system with the latest fcitx5(5.0.7). I cannot type Chinese in alacritty/xterm. I am not familiar with C++, but I have featured out when I use IBus instead of fcitx5, this question disappeared.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Install the latest 5.0.7 fcitx5
Open alacritty/xterm
Type 你好. You will see ä½ å¥½ instead of 你好.

Expected behavior
Type 你好. You will see 你好 instead of ä½ å¥½.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

Desktop: i3wm
Display server type: X11
The output of fcitx5-diagnose if possible.

System Info:

uname -a:

Linux thinkpad 5.11.11-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue, 30 Mar 2021 14:10:17 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a:

LSB Version:	1.4
Distributor ID:	Arch
Description:	Arch Linux
Release:	rolling
Codename:	n/a

lsb_release -d:
```
Description:	Arch Linux
```

/etc/lsb-release:

LSB_VERSION=1.4
DISTRIB_ID=Arch
DISTRIB_RELEASE=rolling
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Arch Linux"

/etc/os-release:

NAME="Arch Linux"
PRETTY_NAME="Arch Linux"
ID=arch
BUILD_ID=rolling
ANSI_COLOR="38;2;23;147;209"
HOME_URL="https://www.archlinux.org/"
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://wiki.archlinux.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://bbs.archlinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.archlinux.org/"
LOGO=archlinux

Desktop Environment:

Cannot determine desktop environment.
Bash Version:
```
BASH_VERSION='5.1.4(1)-release'
```

Environment:

DISPLAY:
```
DISPLAY=':0'
```

Keyboard Layout:

setxkbmap:

xkb_keymap {
	xkb_keycodes  { include "evdev+aliases(qwerty)"	};
	xkb_types     { include "complete"	};
	xkb_compat    { include "complete"	};
	xkb_symbols   { include "pc+us+inet(evdev)+altwin(swap_alt_win)+ctrl(swapcaps)"	};
	xkb_geometry  { include "pc(pc105)"	};
};

xprop:

_XKB_RULES_NAMES(STRING) = "evdev", "pc105", "us", "", "ctrl:swapcaps,altwin:swap_alt_win"

Locale:

All locale:
```
C
en_US.utf8
POSIX
zh_CN.utf8
```

Current locale:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=

Directories:
1. Home:
```
/home/jinmiaoluo
```
2. ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME}:
  
  Environment variable XDG_CONFIG_HOME is not set.
  
  Current value of XDG_CONFIG_HOME is ~/.config (/home/jinmiaoluo/.config).
3. Fcitx5 Settings Directory:
  
  Current fcitx5 settings directory is ~/.config/fcitx5 (/home/jinmiaoluo/.config/fcitx5).
Current user:

The script is run as jinmiaoluo (1000).

Fcitx State:

executable:

Found fcitx5 at /usr/bin/fcitx5.
version:

Fcitx version: 5.0.7
process:

Found 1 fcitx5 process:
```
   1053 fcitx5
```
fcitx5-remote:

fcitx5-remote works properly.
DBus interface:

Using dbus-send to check dbus.

Owner of DBus name org.fcitx.Fcitx5 is :1.3.

PID of DBus name org.fcitx.Fcitx5 owner is 1053.

Fcitx Configure UI:

Config Tool Wrapper:

Found fcitx5-configtool at /usr/bin/fcitx5-configtool.
Config GUI for qt:

Found fcitx5-config-qt at /usr/bin/fcitx5-config-qt.
Config GUI for kde:

kcmshell5 not found.

Frontends setup:

Xim:

${XMODIFIERS}:

Environment variable XMODIFIERS is set to "@im=fcitx" correctly.
Xim Server Name from Environment variable is fcitx.
XIM_SERVERS on root window:

Xim server name is the same with that set in the environment variable.
XIM for Emacs:

Your LC_CTYPE is set to en_US.UTF-8 instead of one of zh, ja, ko. You may not be able to use input method in emacs because of an really old emacs bug that upstream refuse to fix for years.

Qt:

qt4 - ${QT4_IM_MODULE}:

Environment variable QT_IM_MODULE is set to "fcitx" correctly.
qt5 - ${QT_IM_MODULE}:

Environment variable QT_IM_MODULE is set to "fcitx" correctly.
Qt IM module files:

Found fcitx5 im module for qt6: /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libfcitx5platforminputcontextplugin.so.
Found fcitx5 qt5 module: /usr/lib/fcitx5/qt5/libfcitx-quickphrase-editor5.so.
Found unknown fcitx qt module: /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kcms/kcm_fcitx5.so.
Found fcitx5 im module for qt: /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libfcitx5platforminputcontextplugin.so.
Cannot find fcitx5 input method module for Qt4.

Gtk:

gtk - ${GTK_IM_MODULE}:

Environment variable GTK_IM_MODULE is set to "fcitx" correctly.

gtk-query-immodules:

gtk 2:

Found gtk-query-immodules for gtk 2.24.33 at /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0.
Version Line:

# Created by /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 from gtk+-2.24.33

Found fcitx5 im modules for gtk 2.24.33.

"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-fcitx5.so" 
"fcitx" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*" 
"fcitx5" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*"

gtk 3:

Found gtk-query-immodules for gtk 3.24.28 at /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-3.0.
Version Line:

# Created by /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-3.0 from gtk+-3.24.28

Found fcitx5 im modules for gtk 3.24.28.

"/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-fcitx5.so" 
"fcitx" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*" 
"fcitx5" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*"

Gtk IM module cache:

gtk 2:

Found immodules cache for gtk 2.24.33 at /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules.cache.
Version Line:

# Created by /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-2.0 from gtk+-2.24.33

Found fcitx5 im modules for gtk 2.24.33.

"/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/immodules/im-fcitx5.so" 
"fcitx" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*" 
"fcitx5" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*"

gtk 3:

Found immodules cache for gtk 3.24.28 at /usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules.cache.
Version Line:

# Created by /usr/bin/gtk-query-immodules-3.0 from gtk+-3.24.28

Found fcitx5 im modules for gtk 3.24.28.

"/usr/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/immodules/im-fcitx5.so" 
"fcitx" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*" 
"fcitx5" "Fcitx5 (Flexible Input Method Framework5)" "fcitx5" "/usr/locale" "ja:ko:zh:*"

gtk 4:

Cannot find immodules cache for gtk 4

Cannot find fcitx5 im module for gtk 4 in cache.

Gtk IM module files:
1. gtk 2:
  
  All found Gtk 2 immodule files exist.
2. gtk 3:
  
  All found Gtk 3 immodule files exist.
3. gtk 4:
  
  All found Gtk 4 immodule files exist.

Configuration:

Fcitx Addons:

Addon Config Dir:

Found fcitx5 addon config directory: /usr/share/fcitx5/addon.

Addon List:

Found 28 enabled addons:

Simplified and Traditional Chinese Translation
Classic User Inteface
Clipboard
Cloud Pinyin
DBus
DBus Frontend
Emoji
Fcitx4 Frontend
Full width character
IBus Frontend
Lua IME API
Input method selector
Keyboard
KDE Input Method Panel
Lua Addon Loader
Status Notifier
Notification
Pinyin
Extra Pinyin functionality
Punctuation
Quick Phrase
Spell
Table
Unicode
Wayland
Wayland Input method frontend
XCB
X Input Method Frontend

Found 0 disabled addons:

Addon Libraries:

All libraries for all addons are found.
User Interface:

Found 2 enabled user interface addons:
```
Classic User Inteface
KDE Input Method Panel
```

Log:

date:
```
Wed Mar 31 06:31:43 PM CST 2021
```
/home/jinmiaoluo/.config/fcitx5/crash.log:

/crash.log not found.

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wengxt · 2021-03-31T14:13:59Z

What's the version of xcb-imdkit?

Can you try fcitx5 --r --verbose=xim=5 , and then start xterm.

Try to locate "Client encoding" line in the log, what is the output?
D2021-03-31 07:12:40.645252 xim.cpp:489] Client encoding: 0x56078d2c0380 0

jinmiaoluo · 2021-04-01T02:36:46Z

I am not using xcb-imdkit from community repo. I am using the aur package xcb-imdkit-git. The version of xcb-imdkit-git is: 1.0.1.r3.g7766db9-1. After I replace xcb-imdkit-git with xcb-imdkit. The problem disappeared. Thx.

jinmiaoluo · 2021-04-01T02:41:30Z

The output of fcitx5 --r --verbose=xim=5 about Client encoding with xcb-imdkit from community repo.

D2021-04-01 10:39:48.034081 xim.cpp:87] -- XIM_ENCODING_NEGOTIATION
D2021-04-01 10:39:48.034105 xim.cpp:489] Client encoding: 0x55fe62b22570 0
D2021-04-01 10:39:48.034495 xim.cpp:87] -- XIM_ENCODING_NEGOTIATION
D2021-04-01 10:39:48.034522 xim.cpp:489] Client encoding: 0x55fe619ee8a0 0
D2021-04-01 10:39:48.034928 xim.cpp:87] -- XIM_ENCODING_NEGOTIATION
D2021-04-01 10:39:48.034952 xim.cpp:489] Client encoding: 0x55fe619ee950 0
D2021-04-01 10:39:48.035069 xim.cpp:87] -- XIM_ENCODING_NEGOTIATION
D2021-04-01 10:39:48.035107 xim.cpp:489] Client encoding: 0x55fe619eea00 0

wengxt · 2021-04-01T02:42:50Z

issue was due to using old package.

This fixes an input issue with alacritty/xterm, see fcitx/fcitx5#254

This fixes an input issue with alacritty/xterm, see fcitx/fcitx5#254 (cherry picked from commit 46ac936)

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xcb-imdkit: 1.0.2 -> 1.0.3

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This fixes an input issue with alacritty/xterm, see fcitx/fcitx5#254

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This fixes an input issue with alacritty/xterm, see fcitx/fcitx5#254 (cherry picked from commit 46ac936)

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System Info:

Environment:

Fcitx State:

Fcitx Configure UI:

Frontends setup:

Xim:

Qt:

Gtk:

Configuration:

Fcitx Addons:

Log:

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